IDA Technologies & Features Highlights

IDA is in many ways
unique. Its interactivity allows you to improve disassemblies in real time.
Its multi-processor support is unmatched. Yet,
two of our technologies are truly unique, have never been implemented under
any form in any real-life disassemblers and, more importantly, are incredible
time savers

Extensibility

IDA offers an
open Plugin Architecture. Our PE
debugger is nothing more than a plugin! The source code of several plugins is included in the SDK. Other plugins can be found around the net, for example from Ilfak's blog